[2] This group was defined in the PhyloCode by George Sangster and colleagues in 2022 as "the least inclusive crown clade containing Accipiter nisus, Colius colius, and Picus viridis, but not Passer domesticus".

[4] Accipitriformes (hawks and relatives) Strigiformes (owls) Coliiformes (mousebirds) Leptosomiformes (cuckoo roller) Trogoniformes (trogons) Bucerotiformes (hornbills and relatives)

Coraciiformes Piciformes Afroaves has not always been recovered as a monophyletic clade in subsequent studies.

For instance, Prum et al. (2015) recovered the accipitrimorphs as the sister group to a clade (Eutelluraves) comprising the remaining afroavian orders and Australaves,[5] while an analysis by Houde et al. (2019) recovered a clade of accipitrimorphs and owls as sister to the remaining landbirds.

Stiller et al. (2024) found that the support for their placement of the Strigiformes increased when additional taxa were included in the analysis.